Every day that goes by and rather than become clearer, the government’s tactics in the ongoing negotiation becomes more contradictory and ambiguous. The unavoidable consequence is for the insecurity to grow domestically, while any chance of an agreement seems increasingly unlikely.
How can one justify the Finance Minister’s tactics? On the same day he claims that despite the problems at hand, the government will work towards an agreement with the creditors (because every other option would be catastrophic), only to go in the complete opposite direction a few hours later, claiming that Greece is threatened with a coup, not like the one from 1967, but from the banks which are strangling us. Which logic ad negotiation tactic should the Europeans trust and believe in, when they are inundated on daily basis by similar contradictory statements from government officials?
The confusion does not only exist in the government’s negotiation tactics. There is also it’s day-to-day management tactics, which are making the people questions what is in store for them next. It is absurd for a Minister to state in the morning that he is 400 million euros short to pay wages and pensions, only for his to return two hours later to take it back by claiming, with great naivety, that he found the funds when he returned to his office.
Unfortunately, at a time when everyone is warning that it is tie to stop the lessons in rhetoric and cheap statements, top government officers who are handling the country’s future insist upon playing games of self-assertion, ignoring the consequences of their words. With the country literally on the brink, with money being sought out from everywhere every day, with legal and non-legal procedures, someone must decide to put some order to this endless parade of statements. That is none other than the Prime Minister who promised the Greek people a better and more efficient government. It is time he enforced that, if he truly meant it.
TO VIMA
